A Letter from Skopje

Report on the visit of Josip Broz Tito and Polish officials Gomulka and Cyrankiewicz to Skopje in 1965. During the visit, the high-ranking guests from Poland were presented with a charter declaring them honorary citizens of Skopje. Review of the new urban solutions of the city, sketches and models.

The film is the story of girl Cveta who was abducted by the Ottoman bey and taken away in his harem. Bey is trying to embrace Islam, but its persistence, and its neighbors led beloved Spasa, and beloved local priest, assisted by diplomats of the great powers manage to free themselves. On the day of her wedding comes Bey with his army to try to get it back. Cveta dies, Spasa killing Bey and and goes to the committees.

Macedonian national folk dances performed by "Tanec" - a cultural and artistic society from Skopje.

In the conflict with the enemy in one battle lost in advance, the risk to die in vain, partisan Mitko Angelov, fleeing from the battlefield. He climbs onto the train and goes to see his mother, who has just returned from internment. When he returned to the brigade, Mitko was declared a deserter and was disarmed and bound. Since he lost his weapon, the Commissioner sent him to patrol the action to take weapons from the Germans. All partisans patrol that went with him dying and the only Mitko and Vane, who was seriously injured remain alive. Thinking it was dead Vane, Angelov returns to the brigade. But the commander did not believe him, thinking that he had fled from the battle, and that is why the prison in the basement. In the meantime, get wounded fighter Vane, and the story of the heroic struggle led by Mitko. But at the same time, a military court condemned him to death for desertion.

Macedonia on the turn of the century is enslaved by decaying Ottoman Empire. Freedom fighters, in order to raise money for their cause, kidnap American lady who works in Protestant mission.

Yugoslav farmer-turned-partisan Slavko Babić starts an uprising against the fascist Germans and their allies.

A film about migrant workers in the Drimkol region of Macedonia, when the people of this region, known as masons, made their own and their families' livelihoods by working all over the world. The tradition of migrant workers is now continued through work at the Drimkol cooperative.

A film about the construction of the hydroelectric power plant in the village of Tresonche, on the Radika River. The film was shot with the participation of students from the Nikola Tesla Electrical School in Skopje, 1950.

A display of the ancient way of fishing with birds, on Lake Dojran, the only place in the world where people are fishing with birds.

The film records the celebration of the fifth anniversary of cultural life in the People's Republic of Macedonia, which took place in Ohrid in 1950, and included several cultural events: the unveiling of a monument to the Miladinov brothers in Struga, the opening of an exhibition of cultural achievements, as well as the II Congress of Educators.

A journal giving information about the commissioning of Skopje's newly built neighborhoods: Aerodrom, Kozle, Vlae, Madžari, Gjorče Petrov I and II, then about the construction of prefabricated barracks in the Shuto Orizari neighborhood, the commissioning of the Children's Clinic within the Skopje hospital, as well as about the aid that Skopje received daily from all over the world and about the reception on the occasion of the Liberation Day of Skopje, in honor of the builders of the city.

A documentary film about the great floods in Macedonia, filmed from 16 to 18.11.1962. The film shows the catastrophic floods in November 1962 that hit Macedonia, when the largest Macedonian rivers: Vardar, Treska and Crna overflowed their banks. The film shows footage during and after the floods and the efforts of the people in the fight against the raging water element and in saving the endangered lives and material wealth.

Through photographs and documents this short documentary makes a reconstruction of the large demonstrations in Veles in 1939, when thousands of people went protesting to the streets under the slogan "We are asking for bread."

A film poem based on the verses of the Macedonian poet and revolutionary Kočo Racin. His poetic journey is conveyed through a cinematic panorama of the life of the Macedonian people in the past.

The theme of the film is the celebration of October 11, 1948 in Prilep, Kumanovo, Kichevo and the commemoration of the day of the liberation of Debar. In honor of the holiday, in Skopje, in Daut - Pashin Amam, an exhibition about the Revolution and the National Liberation War is opened. Then, the holding of folk fairs, agricultural exhibitions and a book exhibition on the occasion of the "Book Week" are shown.

The journal contains sequences from the construction of Skopje immediately after the earthquake, especially residential buildings, as well as sequences from everyday life, tent settlements, and rail and city traffic.